Hello!

I am an experienced programmer. I like to have an other OS than the built in
WinCE on the MP-C33, too. I tried to install NetBSD on the MP-C33 without
luck some months ago, too.
In some weeks, when I have more time, I will try again to install a
operating system other than WinCE on the MP-C33. I will try to install ROME.
ROME is a open source multimedia OS for several processors:
http://rome.sourceforge.net
The author of ROME had ROME running on a NEC-VR processor. The VR4122 in the
MP-C33 is a NEC-VR, too. 
To be able to install a new OS a JTAG-port would be very helpful. A
JTAG-port is a port for debugging and Flash-reprogramming. Someone found the
JTAG-pins of the Compaq iPaq:
http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/iPAQ-3600
So there are chances that the JTAG-pins can be found on the PCB of the 
MP-C33. Without a JTAG-port it will be much more difficult to install a new
OS.

greetings,
mips


>Hello Everybody,
>does anyone else have an idea how to solve our problem?
>
>We are really not the best c-coders but would try everything as good
>as we can to get netbsd running on our devices.
>So any suggestions what else we could try to get netbsd running on the
>VR4122 CPU are welcome .... we hope, there are some more suggestions
>and that we donīt have to stop thinking about netbsd on this nice
>devices ... please :(

>This device has 32MB of RAM, so could we try a "bigger"
>netbsd-kernel with more support for whatever? I donīt have another
>mips-device or a cross-compiling plattform to build netbsd-mips kernel
>(and of cause not the knowlege what it could be an what should be
>included more in another kernel), but maybe someone of you?

>Many thanks again to everyone spending time to help us german guys, we
>hope that we can act as alpha-testers to find this problem with netbsd
>on the vr4122 cpu.
>
>Wish you all a nice weekend,
>bye Alex